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"If you have to read the report to know the conclusion, it’s a real think tank. If you know the conclusion as soon as you know the topic and where it was written, you’re dealing with a phony."
- Mark Kleiman (On “think tanks”, February 21, 2006)

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With adult children establishing lives of their own, my wife and I are looking to get reacquainted. It seems that our main focus for a few decades has been on parenting and work - we're looking forward to what comes next.

"An Indian government committee is soon expected to announce the start of a formal process to set aside patents on 15 more medicines, according to a committee member who agreed to speak about secret deliberations only if granted anonymity. Malini Aisola of the Public Health Foundation of India said the expanded list “will create ripples around the world.” "

“When Mr. Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he told his followers in the African National Congress that he believed in the nationalization of South Africa’s main businesses. “The nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the A.N.C., and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable,” he said at the time.

Two years later, however, Mr. Mandela changed his mind, embracing capitalism, and charted a new economic course for his country.”

- Sorkin AR. How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets. New York Times December 9, 2013. p B1.

Friday, December 6, 2013

"I have this new initiative in my life, and I’m trying to push my colleagues to do it, too, where I want to work less and think more.
In a given month, I do a lot of very mediocre stuff, but once in a while I come up with a really good idea. Maybe I’ll come up with two in a month. Those two inevitably happen when I’m either falling into a nap, or coming out of a nap, or waking up slowly on a Saturday morning.
I’m trying to engineer more of those in my life. I’m trying to encourage more people to have naps because, hopefully, more people will have these brilliant ideas."
- Brian Halligan
Quoted in Adam Bryant. CORNER OFFICE: Brian Halligan, Chief of HubSpot, on the Value of Naps. New York Times Dec 6, 2013
http://nyti.ms/186jqKE